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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 340-342 |
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Primary pleuropulmonary synovial sarcoma on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan
Digish Shah1, Prakash Odedra2
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Services, Health Care Global Cancer Centre, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
2 Department of Radiology Imaging Services, Health Care Global Cancer Centre, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Correspondence Address:
Digish Shah
Department of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Services, Health Care Global Cancer Centre, Sola Science City Road, Near Sola Bridge, Ahmedabad - 380 060, Gujarat
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_82_17
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Primary pleuropulmonary synovial sarcoma, a mesenchymal tumor of lung and pleura, is very rare and highly aggressive condition among the primary lung malignancies. As role of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (FDG PET-CT) has been established in lung malignancies in terms of staging, restaging, biopsy guidance, and treatment response evaluation, there is also role of FDG PET-contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) to raise suspicion or increase confidence in reporting of sarcomatous lung malignancy by studying characteristics of CECT scan features. We present a case of a 57-year-old female patient having large lung mass, who underwent FDG PET-CT scan and findings raised strong suspicious of noncarcinomatous pattern of lung mass and may have sarcomatous primary lung malignancy which was later proven on histopathological and immunohistochemistry report.
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